"The inherent lightness or darkness of a form - its local-tone - is a given quality of all forms. It is affected by, but separate from, the light and dark areas that result from light falling on forms."

“We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...”

“I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the world. Flash forward a year and ask, "Is this really going to be that big of a deal? In the long run, it's really not".”

“I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.”

“The grand design of nature perceived broadly in four dimensions, including the forces that move the universe and created man, with special focus on evolution in our own biosphere, is something intrinsically good that it is right to preserve and enhance, and wrong to destroy and degrade.”

Source : "Science and the Problem of Values". Book by Roger Wolcott Sperry, p. 127, 1972.

“There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.”

“Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I do know that what we are experiencing now will pass and in the end we will all be brothers, not just blood brothers, as we are, but brothers in spirit. Neither you nor I can change the world or human nature and we can only aim at changing attitudes - and perhaps teach those who have so much to give a portion of their blessings to those who have less.”

“Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.”

Source : "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

“All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is always making us reassess our thoughts and feelings about how we relate to other people. There are always people who fear that and want to suppress that.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.